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Vol. 45
No. 1
THE GAZETTE
of the
INCORPORATED LAW SOC IETY OF IRELAND
President
R
oger
G
reene
Vice-Presidents
Secretary
N
ia ll
S.
G
a ffn ey
E
ric
A.
P
lunkett
F
rancis
J . G
ea rty
FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS
MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL
A
pril
26
th
.
The President in the Chair. Also
present: Messrs. Niall S. Gaffney and Frances J.
Gearty, Vice-Presidents ; Patrick R. Boyd, Desmond
Mayne, Daniel O’Connell, Reginald J. Nolan,
Thomas A. O’Reilly, Dermot P. Shaw, Derrick M.
Martin, Louis E. O’Dea, William J. Norman, Henry
St. J. Blake, John Carrigan, Gerald J . O’Donnell,
James J . O’Connor, John J . Sheil, Sean O hUadh-
aigh, Joseph Barrett, Joseph P. Tyrrell, John R.
Halpin, George A. Overend, James R. Quirke,
John J . Nash, Maurice M. Power, Arthur Cox,
Patrick F. O’Reilly, Desmond R. Counahan.
The following was among the business trans
acted :—
Sale at a price inclusive o f costs
Members wrote referring to the common practice
of builders o f offering to sell newly built houses to
purchasers at a net price expressed to include all
legal charges, and stated that in many cases the title
furnished to the lessee is insufficient. They sub
mitted that the practice o f offering houses at inclusive
prices, if permissible at all, should be strictly regu
lated and they asked that the Council should use
their influence to see that a good marketable title
should be furnished. The Committee which con
sidered the matter referred to the opinion o f the
Council published in the Society’s
G
azette
for June,
1949, disapproving of the practice by solicitors of
publishing advertisements for the sale or leasing of
property at a price inclusive of costs on the ground
that such advertisements suggest that the services
o f the vendor’s solicitor are at the disposal o f the
purchaser without any additional charge. The
Committee recommended that the attention o f
members should be drawn to this opinion by a notice
in the Society’s
G
azette
.
The Council adopted
the report o f the Committee. The Council also
appointed a deputation to interview the President and
Secretary o f the principal builders’ associations with a
view to inducing them to advise their members that
advertisements for the sale or lease of new houses
should contain no reference to solicitors’ costs.
The Council were also of the opinion that where
new property is sold by way of lease the contract
for the lease should provide that a marketable title
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